On 13/09/11 8:19 AM, Forgeot Eric wrote:
The drupal website is using blue link, but with a different color than the blue 
which was common during the geocities era: the design is classy and elegant, 
yet it's simple:

http://drupal.org/documentation/customization/tutorials/beginners-cookbook
Interesting that the site uses a right side bar, which is common on "author-centric" wordpress themes.

The same goes for this localized version: http://drupalfr.org/documentation

There are some trends in webdesign. It's not a shame to follow them, especially 
for a publishing tool.
Yes and especially for a publishing tool that has as its first design principle, "Favour writers over readers".
The current design is at least 6 year old: 
http://web.archive.org/web/20050913023010/http://pmwiki.org/
Good designs last a long time, but a face-lift can make a good design better. It would not take much:

- bring the css up to date (links, headings, body width, etc)

- consider switching to a right side-bar (or make this a local/config.php option to show how easy it is to customise pmwiki templates)

JR

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John Rankin
Affinity Limited



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